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Don Grice
AS Profile IBM lifer Don Grice is chief engineer of Big Blue's $100m Roadrunner supercomputer at the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos national laboratory. Named after New Mexico's state bird, Roadrunner is twice as fast as the... [07 Oct 2008]
ID cards, driverless buses and virtual shipwrecks
Photo See what else silicon.com saw at the National Museum of Computing based at Bletchley Park, home of World War II code-breakers and the Colossus code-cracking supercomputer. The MoD showed off the computer games it uses to... [02 Oct 2008]
RIM chasing Apple with "lifestyle" features?
News Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab In what looks like an attempt to compete toe-to-toe with Apple's iPhone, RIM announced a slew of new integrated application deals on Thursday to make its email-optimised smart phone... [12 Sep 2008]
MP risks arrest for Segway use
News Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab MP Lembit Opik braved arrest on Tuesday as he teetered along on a Segway at a cool 12mph outside the Houses of Parliament. The MP for Montgomeryshire was willing to be hauled away by... [09 Sep 2008]
Photos: A dip into Bletchley's classic PC archive
Photo The UK's cash-strapped National Museum of Computing is based at Bletchley Park, home of World War II code-breakers and the Colossus code-cracking supercomputer. One of the museum's exhibits displays the best of British... [03 Sep 2008]
Cloud - not ready for mission-critical business
News Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is "several years away" from being enterprise-ready but companies should begin experimenting with the technology, according to a Citrix executive. [03 Sep 2008]
Five-year wait for O2 Oyster card mobiles
News Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab Mobile operator O2 has announced the results of a six-month mobile wallet trial in London - and, despite claims consumers are enamoured of having contactless travel capabilities... [02 Sep 2008]
Server sales continue to rise
News Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab While the continuing economic downturn might suggest that the market for computer hardware should likewise take a dip, the latest figures for server sales from analyst house Gartner... [26 Aug 2008]
Canonical joins Linux Foundation
News Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab Canonical, the company that sponsors the Linux-based operating system Ubuntu, has joined the Linux Foundation. Ubuntu community members had already been participating in workgroups at... [20 Aug 2008]
Tech spend to top $3.4tr
News Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab Despite a shaky global economic market, worldwide IT spending will pass the $3.4tr mark this year, up eight per cent from last year, according to analyst Gartner. The decline of the US... [19 Aug 2008]
ISO rejects latest OOXML appeals
News Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab The International Organization for Standardization has thrown out four appeals against its ratification of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format. The appeals were made by Brazil,... [19 Aug 2008]
Linux Foundation releases developer guide
News Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab The Linux Foundation has released a guide for developers who wish to contribute Linux code. A guide to the kernel development process aims to encourage participation by new programmers... [18 Aug 2008]
Is BlackBerry taking a leaf out of Apple's book?
Comment Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab If you thought iPhone nano rumours were hard to avoid, consider the myriad BlackBerry incarnations haunting cyberspace. First up the BlackBerry KickStart. Leaked images of this frankly... [14 Aug 2008]
Legal move leaves Oyster contract in limbo
News Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab Cubic, a member of the TranSys consortium that runs London's Oyster smartcard public transport system, has been legally restrained by EDS, the other major member of the consortium, from... [14 Aug 2008]
Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' targets six critical flaws
News Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab Microsoft has released six critical patches for August's 'Patch Tuesday', including a fix for six vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. Affected versions of the web browser include... [13 Aug 2008]
